Roger Hedgecock: Sex-selection abortion exposed

Planned Parenthood and the Chinese communist government are both waging a lethal war on unborn women by promoting abortion based on gender selection.

The Chinese government’s “one child” per couple policy is carried out by voluntary abortion if possible, forced abortion if necessary.

Chinese couples favor male offspring and many Chinese women abort female babies in the hope that the next one will be male.

After a dramatic escape from house arrest and after seeking refuge in the U.S. embassy in Beijing, blind Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng recently landed safely in the U.S. amid much media attention.

Most of the U.S. media ignored why Chen was persecuted in China.

Chen is an anti-abortion activist and leading opponent of the Chinese government’s “one child” policy and the gender-selection abortions that follow enforcement of that policy.

The U.S. government has long condemned gender-selection abortion practices in China, India and other countries.

The House of Representatives is scheduled to vote this week on HR 3541, known as PRENDA, the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act, which would ban gender-selection abortions in the United States.

The ugly secret here is that gender-selection abortion is also rampant in the U.S. and that Planned Parenthood is playing a supportive role.

A group called Live Action

(liveaction.org) has released the first of a series of videos documenting Planned Parenthood’s role in gender-selection abortion. The series is called “Gendercide: Sex Selection in America.”

In the first video, a woman working for Live Action and presenting herself as pregnant visits the Planned Parenthood clinic in Austin, Texas.

The woman speaks at length with a PP employee seeking advice on how to find out the sex of her baby, declaring her intent to abort the baby if it is a girl.

The PP employee openly counsels the woman on how to defraud Medicaid to pay for the OB/GYN costs and cautions her to not mention to the doctor that she wants to know the sex of the baby because she wants to abort if it is a female.

Reacting to the video, Planned Parenthood released a statement condemning “gender bias” and “sex selection based on gender bias.”

The Huffington Post came to Planned Parenthood’s defense, claiming that Live Action had edited the video to achieve the appearance of Planned Parenthood’s approval of gender selection in abortion.

In response, Live Action posted the entire video, providing further detail of the Planned Parenthood employee’s approval of gender selection as a valid reason for making the choice for abortion.

A Planned Parenthood spokeswoman then told Huffington Post that the employee in the video “did not follow our protocol” for dealing with “a highly unusual patient scenario.” Three days after release of the video, the employee was fired.

The spokeswoman repeated that Planned Parenthood condemns seeking abortion on the basis of gender selection but must provide “high-quality, confidential, nonjudgmental care to all who come into” its clinics.

In fact, PP actively opposes and lobbied against PRENDA, which would ban gender selection, claiming the legislation would “further isolate and stigmatize some women, particularly those in the Asian-American and Pacific Islander and African American communities.”